Borrowing and debt, sentence 14
A loan means borrowing a set amount and paying it back in fixed amounts plus interest, so the total cost is more than the price.
Who acts: loan, total cost · What happens: mean, borrow, pay back, be · To what, where: set amount, amount, fixed amounts
This is a sentence of the lesson «Borrowing and debt» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loan, total cost), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 loan | det |
| 2 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | borrowing | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 amount | det |
| 6 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amount | compound |
| 7 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 borrowing | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 paying | cc |
| 9 | paying | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 borrowing | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 paying | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 paying | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 amounts | case |
| 13 | fixed | fixed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 amounts | amod |
| 14 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 paying | obl |
| 15 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 16 interest | cc |
| 16 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 amounts | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 more | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 more | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cost | det |
| 20 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 cost | amod |
| 21 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 more | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 more | cop |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 means | conj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 price | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 price | det |
| 26 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 more | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | a loan | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | borrow not said to happen | gerund | a loan not said here | a set amount | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay back | gerund | a loan not said here | amount | fixed amounts plus interest | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | |||
| 4 | is | present | the total cost | than the price; more property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:008-borrowing-and-debt.lesson:14.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/8-borrowing-and-debt/14/